Hobbit First Edition – US Tolkien Bibliography

1938 – The Hobbit – 1st Edition – Hardcover in Dust-Jacket – Houghton Mifflin Company

See here for details in Hobbit First Editions: https://www.tolkienbooks.us/hob/us/hc/the-hobbit-1938

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1948 – An Inheritance of Poetry (Goblin Feet, Hobbit: Riddles in the Dark, Road Goes Ever On, Lullaby for Bilbo Baggins) – 1st Edition – Hardcover in Dust-Jacket – Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Goblin Feet, Hobbit excerpt: Riddles, Song: Road Goes Ever on, Poem: Lullaby for Bilbo Baggins.

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1959 – Anthology of Children’s Literature (Riddles in the Dark) – 1st Tolkien Content Edition [3rd Revised] – Hard Cover with Dustjacket – Houghton Mifflin Company

This is technically the 3rd edition of the anthology but it is the first one with Tolkien content.

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1962 – Wonder Lands (Hobbit First Chapter) – 1st Edition – Hardcover– Golden Press

This has two simultaneously released variants and I am including both here in one entry. The variant with the blue spine has heavy duty construction and was meant for institutional use.

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1966 – The Golden Treasury of Children’s Literature (The Hobbit First Chapter) – 1st Edition – Hard Cover with Dustjacket – Western Publishing

This book took and combined selected chapters from the earlier The Golden Treasury of Children’s Literature series and combined them into an omnibus edition.

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1968 – J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit Script (Printed Narrative Adaptation) – 1st Edition – Booklet – Dramatic Publishing

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1970– Anthology of Children’s Literature (Riddles in the Dark) – 4th Edition – Hard Cover with Dustjacket – Houghton Mifflin Company

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1971 – The Golden Treasury of Children’s Literature (The Hobbit First Chapter) – 1971 Edition – Hard Cover with Dustjacket – Western Publishing

This book took and combined selected chapters from the earlier The Golden Treasury of Children’s Literature series and combined them into an omnibus edition. This variant has additional text on the cover.

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1972 – To Turn a Stone (Riddles in the Dark) – 1st Edition – Hardcover– Ginn and Co

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1985 – The Golden Treasury of Children’s Literature (The Hobbit First Chapter) – 1985 Edition – Hard Cover with Dustjacket – Golden Books

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1985– Anthology of Children’s Literature (Riddles in the Dark) – 5th Edition – Hard Cover with Dustjacket – Houghton Mifflin Company

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1996 – The Hobbit: An Adventure Play (Printed Narrative Adaptation) – 1st Edition – Booklet – Dramatic Publishing

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